走路

Chinese

Pronunciation 1

		to walk; to go; to move to walk; to go; to move; to leave	road; path; way
simp. and trad. (走路)		走	路

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zǒulù

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄡˇ ㄌㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zau² lou⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): cháu-lō͘
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵tseu-lu; ⁵tseu ⁶lu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zǒulù
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄡˇ ㄌㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zǒulù
    • Wade–Giles: tsou³-lu⁴
    • Yale: dzǒu-lù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzoouluh
    • Palladius: цзоулу (czoulu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡soʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ lu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zau² lou⁶
    • Yale: jáu louh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzau² lou⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: zeo² lou⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɐu̯³⁵ lou̯²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: cháu-lō͘
    • Tâi-lô: tsáu-lōo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zawlo
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lɔ²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sau⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ lɔ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lɔ²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lɔ³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sau⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ lɔ³³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁵tseu-lu; ⁵tseu ⁶lu
    • MiniDict: tseu^去 lu; tseu^去 lu^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²tseu-lu; ²tseu ³lu
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡sɤ³³ lu⁴⁴/, /t͡sɤ⁴⁴  lu²³/

Verb

走⫽路 (verb-object)

1. to walk; to get somewhere by foot

   他每天都走路上班。 [MSC, trad. and simp.]

   Tā měitiān dōu zǒulù shàngbān. [Pinyin]

   He walks to work every day.

2. to leave
3. (figurative) to leave a job; to be dismissed from a job

Synonyms

• (to walk):

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• 串 (literary, or in compounds)
• 履行 (lǚxíng) (literary)
• 徒步 (túbù)
• 步 (bù) (literary, or in compounds)
• 步履 (bùlǚ) (literary)
• 步行 (bùxíng)
• 步趨 / 步趋 (bùqū)
• 步輦 / 步辇 (Hokkien)
• 行動 / 行动 (xíngdòng)
• 行步 (xíngbù) (literary)
• 行走 (xíngzǒu)
• 走動 / 走动 (zǒudòng)
• 走道 (zǒudào)

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		走路
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	走道兒
	Taiwan	走路
	Harbin	走道兒
	Singapore	走路
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	走道, 走路
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	走道兒
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	走路
	Xi'an	走路
	Xining	走路
	Xuzhou	走路
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	走路
	Lanzhou	走路
	Ürümqi	走路
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	走路
	Wuhan	走路
	Guiyang	走路
	Liuzhou	走路
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	走路
	Yangzhou	走路
Cantonese	Guangzhou	行路
	Hong Kong	行路
	Dongguan	行路
	Singapore (Guangfu)	行路
Gan	Nanchang	走路
	Lichuan	行路
	Pingxiang	走路, 行路
Hakka	Meixian	行路, 走路, 打路, 打腳
	Yudu	走路, 行路
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	行路
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	行路
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	行路
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	行路
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	行路
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	行路
Huizhou	Jixi	行路
Jin	Taiyuan	走路
	Xinzhou	走路
Northern Min	Jian'ou	行墿
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	行墿
Southern Min	Xiamen	行路
	Quanzhou	行路
	Zhangzhou	行路
	Tainan	行路
	Singapore (Hokkien)	行路
	Manila (Hokkien)	行路
	Shantou	行路
	Jieyang	行路
	Haifeng	行路
	Singapore (Teochew)	行路
	Leizhou	行路
	Haikou	行路
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	行路
Wu	Shanghai	走路
	Shanghai (Chongming)	跑路
	Suzhou	走路, 跑路
	Danyang	走路
	Hangzhou	走路
	Ningbo	走路
	Jinhua	走路, 蹩路
Xiang	Loudi	行路

Dialectal synonyms of 走路 (“to walk; to go on foot”) [map]

• (to be dismissed from a job):

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• 停生意 (⁶din-san₁-i₅) (Shanghainese, dated)
• 執包袱 / 执包袱 (zap¹ baau¹ fuk⁶) (Cantonese)
• 捲鋪蓋 / 卷铺盖 (“to be fired”) (figurative)
• 炒 (chǎo) (slang)
• 炒魷魚 / 炒鱿鱼 (chǎo yóuyú) (slang)
• 解僱 / 解雇 (jiěgù)
• 解聘 (jiěpìn)
• 解職 / 解职 (jiězhí)
• 辭退 / 辞退 (cítuì)
• 遣散
• 開除 / 开除 (kāichú)
• 革除 (géchú)
• 食無情雞 / 食无情鸡 (sik⁶ mou⁴ cing⁴ gai¹) (Cantonese)

See also

• 步行 (bùxíng)
• 行走 (xíngzǒu)

Noun

走路

1. (literary) escape route

Pronunciation 2

		to walk; to go; to move to walk; to go; to move; to leave	road; path; way
simp. and trad. (走路)		走	路
alternative forms		走佬 Cantonese

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zǒulù

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄡˇ ㄌㄨˋ

• Cantonese

  (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): zau² lou^6-2

  (Taishan, Wiktionary): deu² lu^5*

• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): cháu-lō͘

  (Teochew, Peng'im): zao² lou⁷

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zǒulù
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄡˇ ㄌㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zǒulù
    • Wade–Giles: tsou³-lu⁴
    • Yale: dzǒu-lù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzoouluh
    • Palladius: цзоулу (czoulu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡soʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ lu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zau² lou^6-2
    • Yale: jáu lóu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzau² lou^6-2
    • Guangdong Romanization: zeo² lou^6-2
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɐu̯³⁵ lou̯²²⁻³⁵/
  • (Taishanese, Taicheng)
    • Wiktionary: deu² lu^5*
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /teu⁵⁵ lu³²⁻³²⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: cháu-lō͘
    • Tâi-lô: tsáu-lōo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zawlo
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lɔ²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sau⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ lɔ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lɔ²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lɔ³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sau⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ lɔ³³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: zao² lou⁷
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsáu lōu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sau⁵²⁻³⁵ lou¹¹/

Verb

走⫽路 (verb-object)

1. (archaic or Cantonese, Southern Min) to flee; to run away

   走無路／走无路 [Hokkien]  ―  cháu bô lō͘ [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  to have nowhere to escape to

   • 1912, James Dyer Ball, How to Speak Cantonese, 4th edition, Kelly & Wash, pages 210–211:

     佢有一日嚟話、佢掌櫃虧空佢一千銀、個千銀佢係特登留翻嚟還一條債、個掌櫃走路去、揾佢唔到。 [Cantonese, trad.]
     佢有一日嚟话、佢掌柜亏空佢一千银、个千银佢系特登留翻嚟还一条债、个掌柜走路去、揾佢唔到。 [Cantonese, simp.]

     keoi⁵ jau⁵ jat¹ jat⁶ lai⁴ waa⁶, keoi⁵ zoeng² gwai^6-2 kwai¹ hung¹ keoi⁵ jat¹ cin¹ ngan⁴, go³ cin¹ ngan⁴ keoi⁵ hai⁶ dak⁶ dang¹ lau⁴ faan¹ lai⁴ waan⁴ jat¹ tiu⁴ zaai³, go³ zoeng² gwai^6-2 zau² lou^6-2 heoi³, wan² keoi⁵ m⁴ dou^3-2. [Jyutping]

     He came one day, and said that his accountant had embezzled a thousand dollars, which he put by (laid by) to pay a debt. The accountant absconded, and could not be found.

Usage notes

The form 走佬 (zau² lou²) is much more common in Cantonese due to the actual pronunciation.

Synonyms

• 跑路 (pǎolù), 逃亡 (táowáng), (Cantonese) 著草

Derived terms

• 走路袋 (zau² lou^6-2 doi^6-2) (Cantonese)